Bracket-hook



(No Model.) I

O. S. JUDD.

BRAGKET HOOK.

No. 361,634. Patented Apr. 19, 188.

N. PETERS. Plmm-Lmw NITE OLIVER S. J UDD, OF NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT.

BRACKET-=HOOK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 361,634, dated April19, 1887. Application filed December 4, 1886. Serial No. 220,638. (Nomodel.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, OLIVER S. J UDD, a citizen of the United States,residing at New Britain, in the county of Hartford and State ofConnecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inBracket-Hooks, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in hooks of the class which aredesigned to hang upon moldings, such as are ordinarily used onhouse-walls; and the main object of my improvement is to make the eye orcurved end of said hook stand out from the wall, so as to adapt it foruse as a bird-cage hook or for a hanging basket and the like,while atthe same time it is hung upon an ordinary wallqnolding.

Another object of my improvement is to simplify the construction andlessen the cost of production.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of my hook,together with a vertical section of the molding upon which it hangs.Fig. 2 is a front elevation of my said hook; and Fig. 3 is a viewcorresponding with Fig, 1, but showing a slight differencein form.

A in Figs. 1 and 3 designates the vertical face of the wall orsupport,to which the molding B is attached.

0 designates a base or plate designed to rest against the wall at apoint below molding, and having the upper hooked end, a,-which isdesigned to hook over theinolding B in hanging the hook.

b designates the eye or curved end of the hook, which is designed toreceive and hold such objects as it may be desired to hang upon thehook. This eye or curved end I) is on the outer end of an arm,so as tocarry it some distance from'the wall and out from under the upper hookedend, a. Such arm may be cast or otherwise formed in one piece; but Iprefer to form it of wire doubled upon itself, one end or part of thewire forming the part 0, while the other forms the brace d. The part c,I

rivet into the base or plate C, while the brace d, whose end is curved,as shown, I secure between two lugs, h h, which, after receiving thecurved end of said brace, are clinched or bent The only differdown tohold it, as shown.

ence between the forms illustrated in Figs. 1 and 3 is that the brace dis above the part0 in Fig. 1, and below said part in Fig. 3.

It will be seen that by extending the plate or base 0 down below itsupper hooked end and carrying the outer end of the arm having the eye I)away from the wall and out from under the upper hooked end of said baseC, the pressure or weight sustained by the eye I) is brought to bearagainst the wall A and the upper edge of the molding B, with a sort ofbracing action, by reason of which I term my device a bracket-hook.

I am aware that short S-shaped hooks have been made for hanging uponmoldings, and inasmuch as my hook has this same adaptation I haveassigned it to the same class; but so far as I know these prior hooks,when attachable to and detachable from the ordinary wall-molding, hadthe eye or curved end by which pictures or the like were hung locateddirectly underneath the end that hooked over the molding, and they were,therefore, more suspension-hooks,having no base or other part which wasdesigned to press against the wall. Said prior hooks are herebydisclaimed.

I am also aware that prior patents show coat and hat hooks fitted andpermanently secured to a special cleat or molding, and partly held inplace by a hook at the upper edge of the strip and with the plate orbase of the hook resting upon the face of said strip. All of said priorart is hereby disclaimed.

I claim as my invention 1. The device herein described, consisting ofthe molding-hook, the depending base, and the laterally-extending arm orarms terminating in a hook at the outer extremity, all substantially asshown and described.

2. In a brackethook, the plate or base having the lugs h h and thelaterally-extending arm, formed of wire, with the curved end of thebrace d secured between the lugs h It, all substantially as described,and for the purpose specified.

OLIVER S. JUDD.

Witnesses:

Jonn EDWARDS, Jr. JAMES SHEPARD.

